hey guys welcome back to my small engine repair channel and welcome back to another tool review
today i've got a cool tool from milwaukee it's a cutoff tool and of course it's cordless as all the
milwaukee tools i'm buying from my shop from now on and here it is up close it's got an m12 battery
it's the three inch compact cutoff tool number 2522-20 i did come across this tool by accident
online and i thought i got to get this tool for my shop it's so compact and small and powerful it is
the fuel version of the milwaukee cordless tools now the milwaukee fuel tools are the professional
grade and they have a brushless motor it uses a lot less battery now when i bought this tool i
did not get the battery i had to buy the batteries separate so you get the tool you get one cutting
disc you get all this paperwork you get this attachment here and you do get another disc
like this and another one like this and you can see them on the box here there's a diamond tile
blade a metal cut off wheel the dust shoe and the carbide abrasive blade and you do get another
flange here that goes on the tool underneath the disc and you get the allen wrench to remove and
install the blades and here's what i paid for it with tax the original price was 181.26 we paid 13
tax for a grand total of 204 82 and i did get free shipping so that was handy now the main reason i
bought this tool guys is because sometimes i need to go cut small parts and it's awkward to get a
big angle grinder in there which doesn't fit half the time and also with the cordless tools is i
don't need to carry a cord or have power where i'm going to do the cutting i can cut sheer pins off
snow blowers that are hard to reach and also if i just want to go in the yard and cut something i
just grab the tool and go ahead and do it because most of the time i will not have power out there
and also guys i prefer using my cordless tools if i can in the shop because i don't have cords that
i can trip in air hoses and stuff like that now there's some specs here i can show you on the box
the rpms are 20 000 arbor size is 3 8 and it goes on and on here what i'm going to do is
put a link under the video to where you can look at all the specs of this tool and apparently the
warranty on this tool is five years if you bought it with a battery the battery gets
two years warranty so i'll give you a close-up look of the tool again it's the m12 battery
you just pull it out like that and i do recommend that you use the bigger batteries that come with
the milwaukee tools i've got the xc 6.0 which is a very powerful battery it lasts a long time you
can get the xc 3.0 4.0 or the tiny batteries but i do recommend that you get the bigger one for this
tool and it just snaps right into the tool there's a lock here for the trigger you can go reverse or
forward when you see the white here in the middle it is locked so if you want to go in reverse you
just push it in and whatever the white lines up to that's the direction you're going to get
now when you want to replace the disc what you need to do is lock it up up here
i do recommend though before you remove the
disk to lock the trigger and remove the battery for safety precautions
and then just grab the allen wrench that came with the tool and remember that it's reverse threaded
so you're going to have a flange here on top of the disc and one below the disc and there's a
third flange that came with the tool in the box and then just reinstall whatever disc
you're going to be using in your shop i mostly use the metal cutting discs
so i'm just going to leave the tool in the shop with the metal cutting disc on it all the time
so it's quite easy to replace the disc tighten it up again in reverse
and also guys you don't need to buy the original milwaukee cutting discs i bought a box of 3m
metal cutting discs here i got these on amazon for a good price and these are good quality as well
just as good as these ones or better now i've only had the tool for about two weeks in my shop
but i've used it almost every day so i'm going to show you a few situations in the shop here where
i have used this tool already so sometimes i'll use that small tool to reach in and cut some sheer
pins because i cannot reach in with a big grinder like this sometimes now with this tool i can reach
right in and just go and cut the sheer pin make absolutely sure you're wearing safety glasses when
you use this tool so what i'll do here is cut this sheer pin just to show you how this tool works
now if you find the sparks are going towards
your face you can always switch the direction like i'm going to do now
and that was the exact time it took to cut the sheer pin i did not cut out the video
so there you go now i've got a quarter inch bolt here i'm going to cut through that
i'll keep the camera rolling the whole time so you see how long it actually takes
and i'll do another cut here again
and it's pretty quick
so now what i'll do is put a bigger bolt i'll put a 5
16 and we'll see how it cuts through a 5 16 bolt now
that's pretty quick for a small little grinder like that now i've got a piece
of metal it's about 3 8 it comes from a snow blower shoot control mechanism
now i'm pretty impressed for a small little grinder like that to cut through metal like
this that quick i've seen bigger cordless angle grinders that were slower than this now if you're
wondering what these little lights here are for it's to tell you how charged up your battery is
this battery is fully charged and there's also a little light here that comes on and stays on
a little bit after you shut it off it does come in handy sometimes so overall i'm very pleased
with this tool if you have a repair shop this thing will come in so handy for you and it even
has a screen here to protect the motor from debris and it's the m12 fuel brushless motor in this tool
and it does not feel cheap in your hands it feels of good quality and the handle here does
feel good as well it's nice and smooth and you've got a good grip it's very ergonomic
and here's how wide the tool is about five inches just under and depending on the battery you're
using you're looking at about nine inches long if you use the smaller battery it will be shorter
and it's a good tool if you're left-handed or right-handed as well and here's my whole
fleet of milwaukee tools for my shop these are all cordless tools this is another tool i just
recently purchased and has come in very very handy in the shop i use this hacksaw with a metal blade
i even have multiples and triples of certain tools like the small quarter inch impacts i have
three some of them you can put bits in and the other one's just a quarter inch drive right here
now some people say i'm crazy to have all these tools but you know what when you're busy in your
shop you don't want to be looking for a tool that you may have misplaced if you have a few there's
always one ready to go and if you go out somewhere to do a small job you can just bring another one
with you if you have a friend in your shop or somebody helping you they can use their own
tool as well now if you stick with one brand name you can use the batteries in multiple tools
so basically i use these m12 batteries in a lot of small tools and the other ones are m18s
and all i do is i buy different sizes of batteries usually the bigger ones for the bigger tools
you just get more use out of your tool with one battery that way and more power
so i'm extremely happy with this tool guys if you buy this tool for your shop you're
going to say how did i manage without it for so long and again i was not sponsored to make
this video today i just like to do an honest review guys of tools that i've tried in my shop
the purpose of my videos is to help you guys out there to make decisions when you buy tools
now if you are going to buy this tool you can check home depot but if you buy it on
amazon guys just check the prices because i've noticed on there that they can vary drastically
so i've got the link below the video on all the specs of this tool just check it out also there
are links to other milwaukee tool reviews that i've done so please comment below guys if you
have this tool also let us know what tools you use in your shop that are cordless whether it's
milwaukee dewalt or makita or whatever else thanks again for watching make sure you're subscribed
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